Saturday, January 25, 2014

Grow Your Blog Day!

Hi! My name is Chantal and I would like to welcome you to my blog. I am so excited by the opportunity to make new friends.

I started blogging about three years ago. I had two reasons for this:
1. To have a diary of things I make
2. To see all the wonderful projects people are working on.

I am a quilter - I started quilting 14 years ago when we moved to Dallas from South Africa. When I thought about the USA in terms of handwork, quilting was the first thing that came to mind and I am so glad I decided to try it. Fabric has become my obsession with yarn running a close second.

I have knitted and crocheted for most of my life. I had two wonderful grandma's who taught me how to crochet when I was five years old. My Mom taught me how to knit.

I love to English Paper Piece too and host a Club at my Local Quilt Store for English Paper Piecers!
So when you visit my blog, you will see a little bit of this and a little bit of that. Always made with much love and enthusiasm. Handmade, truly snaps my socks.

Here is some Christmas Quilting. I do my own machine quilting too. I mastered this art to not have to pay a quilter. I would so much rather buy fabric!

Here is some progress on a Yarn Eater afghan! I love this stitch. In the picture below is an example of some English Paper Piecing.
I have a present to give away to one lucky reader. Now in my mind a gift is a surprise, so no picture! I will announce the winner on the 15th of February chosen from a comment to this blog post. I will ship to anywhere in the world, so go ahead and leave me a comment. Thank you so much for stopping by today. Your support means to world to me. A BIG thank you to 2 Bags Full, for organizing this event.

49 comments:

Hi! I am Angie - one of Vicki's GYB volunteers. Welcome to the party! It is so nice to meet you. We have a lot in common. I am a self taught quilter who loves hexies and is doing the Soupcon QAL also. I have a Hexie linky party every Friday to enjoy the eye candy of my fellow hexie lovers. Love the projects you shared today. Thank you for participating in Grow your Blog 2014.

I'm visiting from the Grow Your Blog party. Your table runner and quilt are beautiful - you are very talented! I never learned how to quilt. I am into papercrafting. I plan to look around a bit more and then be on my way to visit the others. I do hope you will stop by for a visit and enter my giveaway. Have a wonderful weekend! Hugs – Donna

Hi, Chantal ... Hope you have lots of visitors find your lovely work. Even though I have been following you awhile I have enjoyed getting to know you better with this post. Thanks for sharing. Have fun with the GYB Hop! ... :) Pat

Hi Chantal. I have arrived here via GYB and really like the yarn eater afghan, looks complicated but I'd like to try this stitch. Pity I gave all my wool stash to my mum-in-law last summer! Hope you will have time to visit my blog too. Best wishes Sheryl

I have been quilting for perhaps 30 years, but blogging for only 1 week. So I have lots of questions. linquilts.blogspot.com You have so much "stuff" going on on your blog. How do you do all that? Mine is very plain jane I'm afraid. Tell me what I need to do to help it along please.lin3841@gmail.com in case the blog doesn't let you comment

Good morning Chantal! I'm already one of your followers via Bloglovin. I am with you on the machine quilting thing, I decided to teach myself to do it so that I would have more money for more fabric! I can see the corner of your Soupcon block and it is lovely! I hope you find some lovely new followers!Karen Hhttp://faeriesandfibres.blogspot.ca/

Thank you for sharing your lovely creations! I'm a quilter but not a blogger, and I really appreciate people like you who share their creations and inspire us non-bloggers! I especially love your combination of embroidery and quilting.

Hi, Chantel! Thanks for stopping in and following my blog. We have quite a bit if projects in common. We both are quilters and I have made about three of those wool eater blankets. They turn out sooo pretty. It is nice to get to know you better and look forward to seeing what you create. ~Amy

Oh wow, I love your stars in the post above. I'm not a quilter so I'm not familiar with the correct terms but those are just gorgeous. So is your Christmas wall hanging. Very nice. It has been lovely getting to know you.

My goodness...what beautiful work you do here. And I need to make a "yarn eater" so I can drag out the hidden stash of yarn I have. I am enjoying the blog party. Hope you'll stop by for a visit. Blog on! Aloha

Yarn Eater afghan never heard of it but wow that's a cool stitch. I done some crochet in my day. but that is beautiful. I got hooked on the paper crafting but, I am always mused by all thing creative. My dawn is Dawn and I am a GYB party hopping and I love your site. you can catch me at overboardcreations.blogspot.com. I new but you got to start some where.

Good Day Chantal, it is nice to meet you here in blogland. I'm a new follower via the GYBP. Your projects are wonderful and very inspiring. I look forward to seeing how your EPP progresses. Have a great day, Toni from Easy Street Ramblings (peddlerjo.blogspot.com)

Hi Chantal,It is very nice to meet you. I am visiting from GYB. I love love your fussy cut stars. I just discovered EPP this past year and have fallen in love with it. I love quilting, crochet and knitting too. I am a new follower and look forward to seeing what you create next! xo jan@ Sew and Sow Farmhttp://sewandsowfarm.blogspot.com/2014/01/grow-your-blog-hopand-giveaways.html

About Me

I have been married for 29 years to my wonderful husband. We have four children -3 sons and a daughter, as well as two wonderful daughters-in-law who are the center of our lives. We share our home with two cats. My passion in life is sewing. I was privileged to have two grandmothers who taught me how to knit and crochet at a tender age, instilling a deep love of crafting and being creative in me. I am a self-taught quilter and have been quilting for 14 years.